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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Stolen Art Watch, Peggy Fogelman, Once More Unto The Breach, As She Meets "The Old Master Painter" At The Gardner Museum

Peggy Fogelman to Lead Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Peggy FogelmanCredit Stephanie Berger

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
in Boston has chosen Peggy Fogelman, a longtime curator and museum
education specialist who currently oversees collections at the Morgan
Library & Museum, to be its new director, succeeding Anne Hawley,
who led the Gardner for 25 years.

While Ms. Fogelman,
54, served for a year as acting director of the Morgan during a search
for a new director, this will be the first time she has led a museum.
She has previously worked in curatorial and administrative positions at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem,
Mass., and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

In an interview, she
said she hoped to bring her experience both as a curator and museum
educator to the Gardner, which long ago shook off its reputation as a
kind of fusty relic but which Ms. Fogelman thinks could go even further
in helping visitors to understand its varied collection, ranging from
Old Masters to Islamic art to a focus on music. “This is a
multidisciplinary institution, and the way that those various things
connect may not always be apparent to people,” she said.

She added that she
also planned to continue and perhaps to enhance the museum’s
contemporary art program, which has in recent years increasingly brought
living artists into the museum through exhibitions and residencies. She
said she was interested in exploring collaborations with artists who
might take on curatorial projects, with digitally oriented artists and
with artists who straddle the line of activism, using art to try to
foster social change. “It’s important to keep collections as living
collections,” Ms. Fogelman said.